Speed skating at the 2014 Winter Olympics

Speed skating at the XXII Olympic Winter Games
Venue	Adler Arena, Sochi, Russia
Dates	8–22 February 2014
Competitors	179 from 23 nations

Speed skating at the 2014 Winter Olympics
500 m		men		women
1000 m		men		women
1500 m		men		women
3000 m				women
5000 m		men		women
10000 m		men
Team pursuit		men		women

The speed skating competition of the 2014 Winter Olympics was held at Adler Arena, Sochi, Russia, between 8 and 22 February 2014.

Competition schedule

The following is the competition schedule for all twelve events.

All times are (UTC+4).

Date	Time	Event
8 February	15:30	5000 m men
9 February	15:30	3000 m women
10 February	17:00	500 m men
11 February	16:45	500 m women
12 February	18:00	1000 m men
13 February	18:00	1000 m women
15 February	17:30	1500 m men
16 February	18:00	1500 m women
18 February	17:00	10000 m men
19 February	17:30	5000 m women
21 February	17:30	Team pursuit men qualification
		Team pursuit women qualification
22 February	17:30	Team pursuit men
		Team pursuit women

Medal summary

The Netherlands dominated in speed skating winning eight out of the twelve gold medals and won a total of 23 medals, with medals in all events. There were four Dutch podium sweeps where the Netherlands won the gold, silver and bronze medal, making the Netherlands the first country in Olympic history to achieve this. The events were the: Men's 5000m, Men's 500m, Women's 1500m and Men's 10000m. In the women's 1,500 metres, Dutch athletes placed 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th; the first such result in Olympic speed skating history by athletes from a single nation.

(WR = World Record, OR = Olympic Record)

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Netherlands (NED)	8	7	8	23
2	Poland (POL)	1	1	1	3
3	Czech Republic (CZE)	1	1	0	2
	South Korea (KOR)	1	1	0	2
5	China (CHN)	1	0	0	1
6	Russia (RUS)	0	1	2	3
7	Canada (CAN)	0	1	1	2
	Total	12	12	12	36

Men's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
500 metres	Michel Mulder  Netherlands	69.31	Jan Smeekens  Netherlands	69.32	Ronald Mulder  Netherlands	69.46
1000 metres	Stefan Groothuis  Netherlands	1:08.39	Denny Morrison  Canada	1:08.43	Michel Mulder  Netherlands	1:08.74
1500 metres	Zbigniew Bródka  Poland	1:45.006	Koen Verweij  Netherlands	1:45.009	Denny Morrison  Canada	1:45.22
5000 metres	Sven Kramer  Netherlands	6:10.76 OR	Jan Blokhuijsen  Netherlands	6:15.71	Jorrit Bergsma  Netherlands	6:16.66
10000 metres	Jorrit Bergsma  Netherlands	12:44.45 OR	Sven Kramer  Netherlands	12:49.02	Bob de Jong  Netherlands	13:07.19
Team pursuit	Netherlands (NED) Jan Blokhuijsen Sven Kramer Koen Verweij	3:37.71 OR	South Korea (KOR) Joo Hyong-jun Kim Cheol-min Lee Seung-hoon	3:40.85	Poland (POL) Zbigniew Bródka Konrad Niedźwiedzki Jan Szymański	3:41.94

Women's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
500 metres	Lee Sang-hwa  South Korea	74.70 OR	Olga Fatkulina  Russia	75.06	Margot Boer  Netherlands	75.48
1000 metres	Zhang Hong  China	1:14.02	Ireen Wüst  Netherlands	1:14.69	Margot Boer  Netherlands	1:14.90
1500 metres	Jorien ter Mors  Netherlands	1:53.51 OR	Ireen Wüst  Netherlands	1:54.09	Lotte van Beek  Netherlands	1:54.54
3000 metres	Ireen Wüst  Netherlands	4:00.34	Martina Sáblíková  Czech Republic	4:01.95	Olga Graf  Russia	4:03.47
5000 metres	Martina Sáblíková  Czech Republic	6:51.54	Ireen Wüst  Netherlands	6:54.28	Carien Kleibeuker  Netherlands	6:55.66
Team pursuit	Netherlands (NED) Jorien ter Mors Marrit Leenstra Lotte van Beek Ireen Wüst	2:58.05 OR	Poland (POL) Katarzyna Bachleda-Curuś Natalia Czerwonka Luiza Złotkowska Katarzyna Woźniak	3:05.55	Russia (RUS) Olga Graf Yekaterina Lobysheva Yekaterina Shikhova Yuliya Skokova	2:59.73

Olympic records broken

Main article: World and Olympic records set at the 2014 Winter Olympics

Scoreboard indicating the Olympic record of the men's 5000 m

Event	Date	Round	Name	Country	Time	Record	Ref
Men's 5000 metres	8 February	Pair 10	Sven Kramer	Netherlands	6:10.76	OR
Women's 500 metres	11 February	Race 2 Pair 17	Lee Sang-hwa	South Korea	37.28	OR
	11 February	Race 1 Pair 18 Race 2 Pair 17	Lee Sang-hwa	South Korea	74.70	OR
Women's 1500 metres	16 February	Pair 9	Jorien ter Mors	Netherlands	1:53.51	OR
Men's 10000 metres	18 February	Pair 6	Jorrit Bergsma	Netherlands	12:44.45	OR

Qualification

Main article: Speed skating at the 2014 Winter Olympics – Qualification

Each NOC was allowed to delegate a maximal number of ten men and ten women speed skaters who reached the qualification criteria. A proposal of the Dutch skating association (KNSB) to add an extra athlete, especially for the team pursuit event, was rejected at the congress of the international federation ISU in Kuala Lumpur in June 2012.

Qualification times

The qualification times were released in July 2013. The women's times stayed the same from Vancouver except for a more stringent standard in the 3000 m, while the men's qualification times have all slightly decreased.

Event	Men	Women
500 m	35.90	39.50
1000 m	1:10.80	1:18.50
1500 m	1:48.50	2:00.00
3000 m	N/A	4:15.00
5000 m	6:33.00	7:20.00 or 4:10.00 (3000 m)
10000 m	13:30.00 or 6:28.00 (5000 m)	N/A

Participating nations

179 athletes from 23 nations participated, with number of athletes in parentheses. Chinese Taipei made its debut in the sport.

•  Australia (1)
•  Austria (2)
•  Belgium (2)
•  Canada (17)
•  China (10)
•  Chinese Taipei (1)
•  Czech Republic (2)
•  Finland (3)

•  France (3)
•  Germany (14)
•  Hungary (1)
•  Italy (6)
•  Japan (17)
•  Kazakhstan (6)
•  Latvia (1)
•  Netherlands (20)

•  New Zealand (1)
•  Norway (9)
•  Poland (10)
•  Russia (19)
•  South Korea (18)
•  Sweden (1)
•  United States (17)